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Joseph Stalin, the soviet leader, imposed the Berlin Blockade, cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany.
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North Korea, supported by the soviet union, invaded the South, which was supported by the U.S. The three year long war led to deaths of 3 million people and tens of thousands of casualties Rank:1/11 -
The Americans and soviets completed to prove their technology and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to put a human into space. Rank: 7/11 -
The Vietnam war was a long, costly, and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Rank:2/11 -
The egyptian government seized control of the Suez canal from the British and French owned company that managed it. This all had important consequences for U.S. relations with both mid-western countries and european allies. Rank:5/11 -
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plan over the Soviet Union. Rank: 8/11 -
After extensive consultation with his foreign policy and military advisors, Kennedy blockaded Cuba, and two sides stood on the blink of nuclear war. Rank:9/11 -
Also known as the Ramadan war, and the October war. The war was an armed conflict fought form the 6th to the 25th of October. This was between Israel and a collaboration of Arab states led by egypt and Syria Rank: 4/11 -
The war resulted in the deaths of approximately 3,000,000 Afghans, while millions more fled from the country as refugees; most externally displaced Afghans sought refuge in Pakistan and in Iran. Rank: 7/11 -
It stimulated a period of heightened nuclear tensions between NATO and the Warsaw pact, leading to concerns that it could have been mistaken for a real attack by the Soviet Union. Rank: 10/11 -
All 269 passengers on board were killed as the aircraft crashed into the sea near an island west of Sakhalin, Russia. Rank:11/11